What's going for it? Rumour has it that in the 19th century Harborne was where the degenerates of Bournville and Edgbaston came for a tipple. Unlike its highfalutin neighbours, with their Quaker or Jerry-and-Margot scruples, Harborne was a proper Sodom, with pubs and everything. Today, it's not so different. Bournville remains as squeaky-clean as The Sound Of Music, and Edgbaston is still prim and proper. Harborne is a bit more normal. There are pubs. Betting shops. Carpet shops. Though the neighbourhood has come up in the world. It has its gentrification and blossoming avenues. The golf club rules. There are beauty salons and, praise be, a Waitrose.

The case against What you gain in normality, you lose in beauty; Harborne is not as pretty as its neighbours, save, perhaps, in its village heart around the church. It has some thunderous roads and could be better connected by public transport.

Well connected? Trains: the nearest station is east at University, with trains every 10 minutes or so to central Birmingham (seven minutes), and hourly to Worcester (35). Driving: Hagley Road mainlines you to Birmingham and the M5 (both 10-15 minutes); Birmingham airport (a half-hour) and you can be hiking up the Clent Hills in 25 minutes.

Where to buy Around St Peter's church, you have the old village heart; north and south of the High Street it's a later Victorian and Edwardian suburb of ruddy brick terraces and town houses; both are conservation areas. Surrounding this are plenty of broad late-Victorian, Edwardian and 1920s avenues, such as Fitz Roy, and, nearby, a little garden suburb, the Moor Pool estate. Prices peak towards Edgbaston – look at postwar property for bargains.

Bargain of the week Postwar, three-bedroom detached house in the south, by the Bourn Brook, £250,000 with shipways.co.uk.

From the streets

Frances Henderson "Birmingham Botanical Gardens has great planting, glasshouses and a band on summer Sundays. Generations of children have rolled down the grassy slopes."

Roz Combley "As well as the Plough, other great local pubs include the Junction and the New Inn, with its huge garden. The Bell is a village-style boozer overlooking the church – you'd never think you were a couple of miles from the city centre."

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